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ESTERHAZY, Sask. – A Saskatchewan auto dealership has been fined $35,000 after a service bay door came down on an employee and fractured both of his legs. The accident at Esterhazy Ford Sales Ltd. happened last August as the worker…

CALGARY – Two victims of disgraced national ski coach Bertrand Charest joined former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy on Friday to demand immediate action from the federal government to combat abuse in sports. Charest was found guilty in June 2017 of…

HALIFAX – The lawyer for a Halifax transit worker who complained about racial discrimination in his workplace says his client is seeking over $1.4 million in total damages. Bruce Evans told a Nova Scotia Human Rights hearing today that his…

MONTREAL – Four of the women sexually assaulted by ex-national ski coach Bertrand Charest when they were adolescents say he robbed them of much of their childhood and turned their dreams into a nightmare. Genevieve Simard, Gail Kelly, Amelie Frederique-Gagnon…

THORSBY, Alta. – Alberta RCMP have made an arrest in the gas-and-dash death of a gas station owner. Ki Yun Jo was struck and killed outside his Fas Gas station in Thorsby last October. Police said the 54-year-old had tried to…

TORONTO – A man with schizophrenia who attacked soldiers at a military recruitment centre in Toronto was acquitted of terror charges and found not criminally responsible for lesser offences on Monday as a judge ruled his actions didn’t fit the…

CALGARY – A prominent Calgary chef and restaurant owner has been charged with sexual assault. Police allege a man followed an employee into a bathroom during a social gathering in January in downtown Calgary. It’s alleged the man cornered the…

TORONTO – Ontario’s human rights tribunal has ordered a downtown Toronto restaurant to pay $10,000 to a black man for violating his rights after the establishment asked him and three friends to pre-pay for their meal. The tribunal heard Emile…

KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A former Mountie and youth sports coach who a judge says used his authority and trust to groom teenage boys before sexually assaulting them has been sentenced to six years in prison. Alan Davidson, 62, was taken…

REGINA – A nurse who was fined $26,000 for criticizing the quality of care her grandfather received in long-term care has lost her appeal of the penalty. The Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association imposed the fine on Carolyn Strom of Prince…

HALIFAX – A court has dramatically reduced a cardiology researcher’s record-setting, $1.4 million judgment for damages from a workplace battle at a Halifax hospital. In a decision released Tuesday, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal reduced Dr. Gabrielle Horne’s damages…

The Ontario government says a now-bankrupt mining company has been fined $1.3 million in connection with the deaths of two workers in 2014. The Ministry of Labour says First Nickel Inc., was convicted of six charges under the province’s Occupational…

OTTAWA – The RCMP says it will not appeal its conviction on Labour Code charges related to a 2014 shooting in Moncton, N.B., that left three officers dead and two injured. The force was convicted in September of failing to…

MONTREAL – The bankrupt railway at the centre of the Lac-Megantic train explosion as well, as several of its former employees, settled with federal prosecutors on Monday and were ordered to pay fines totalling $1.25 million, while one ex-railway worker…

TORONTO – A supervisor jailed for a scaffolding collapse in which four men were killed and another was seriously hurt lost his bid on Tuesday to challenge his criminal-negligence conviction and 3 1/2-year sentence. In dismissing his appeal, Ontario’s top…

CARLYLE, Sask. – A Manitoba company has been fined $140,000 for a workplace accident in Saskatchewan that left a worker paralyzed. Brad Hammond Construction Ltd. of Brandon pleaded guilty Wednesday in Carlyle provincial court to an occupational health and safety…

MONCTON, N.B. – The RCMP has been ordered to pay $550,000 for failing to properly arm and train its members in a shooting rampage four years ago that left three New Brunswick Mounties dead and two injured. Judge Leslie Jackson handed…

The federal government confirmed Tuesday it would play a major role in the contruction of a bypass rail line around Lac-Megantic that local residents have been seeking since the July 2013 train derailment that killed 47 people. Ottawa will contribute…

MONTREAL – A Quebec man whose kid sister was one of 47 people killed in the Lac-Megantic tragedy says the three men acquitted Friday should have never been put on trial. “I think, very sincerely, that since the day of…